1. INTERNATIONAL ROAD FEDERATION
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IRF Policy Committee on ITS
Josef A. Czako, Chairman
Summit in Cape Town, 8 March 2012
«ITS as THE Driver of
Economic Growth and Development «
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Worldwide Challenges in Road Transport
1. Environment Protection
2. Congestion Reduction
3. Road Safety
4. Financing of Infrastructure
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3. INTERNATIONAL ROAD FEDERATION
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The Role of
Intelligent
Transportation
Systems (ITS)
for Sustainable
Mobility
in Road Transport
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What is Sustainable Mobility?
1. Sustainable Mobility for People and Goods =
Safe (Accidents, Fatalities)
Environmental Friendly (CO2 neutral)
Efficient (Cost Effective, Lowest Congestion)
User Friendly, Accessible
2. Sustainable Mobility is a Human Right ?
3. Sustainable Mobility is a prec for economic growth!
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5. INTERNATIONAL ROAD FEDERATION
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What are (ITS) Policies?
A policy is typically described as a set of
principles or rules to guide decisions and
achieve described objectives.
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Why Policy is important for ITS Deployment
To achieve the required cooperation towards solving
mobility challenges, ITS deployment involves;
• Exchange of knowledge
• Sharing of best practices
• Simplification of legislation
• Standard setting and facilitating interoperability
• Guidance and raising awareness
• New legislation, if necessary; and
• Coordination to make better use for the available funding.
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ITS deployment is being influenced by many policy areas
• Mobility policies: acknowledging the role and importance of transport and
mobility for social and economic integration and development of regions, states and
nations
• Environment policies: aiming to protect the environment (air, noise, water,
soil, natural habitat), to mitigate current environment impacts of transport and to adapt
transport infrastructure to changing conditions due to climate change
• Transport funding and investment policies: determining the funding
sources, revenues and priorities for transport infrastructure investment, maintenance
and operation
• Spatial planning policies: determining the physical grid and spacing of
different functions such as living, studying, working, relaxing and hence impacting on
mobility needs.
• Social policies: shaping the social context in which people use transport such as
accessibility, affordability, connectivity (of modes), timing due to working and related
activities
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Better roads, better world.
8. INTERNATIONAL ROAD FEDERATION
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ITS Policy Objectives to address the challenges
Optimising
Financing
traffic
road
flow, reduce
infrastructure
congestion
Protecting
Improving
the
road safety
environment
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ITS for financing of road infrastructure
Role of ITS
Apply the “User pays
principle” to finance road
Government budgets infrastructure (ear-marked
are insufficient to funding) and to internalize
external costs
fund widening and
Finance general budget, to
maintenance of road cross-finance other modes of
infrastructure transport and to make road
transport directly
comparable (in prices) to
other modes of transport
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ITS to optimize traffic flow & reduce congestion
Role of ITS :
Urban Congestion in the US: Create a traffic management
4,2 billion hours wasted tool or “steering mechanism”
in traffic jams, to make better use of existing
infrastructure, to optimize
= US $ 87 billion capacity of the network and to
congestion costs (2007) better distribute traffic
Apply pricing strategies to set
Congestion in the European incentives to users to choose
Union: different routes, different
departure times or different
1,9 % of GDP “eaten” by modes of transport
congestion, Assure high level of service to
= € 233 billion congestion travellers (provision of real
costs time information, smooth
traffic, ..)
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ITS for protecting the environment
Role of ITS:
Reduce emissions through
smoothed traffic
Adapt drivers behavior to
WHO - World Health real time situation (e.g. high
Organization: particulate concentration,
slippery lanes, ..)
Assure seamless linkages
Urban air pollution kills between different modes of
~ 1.2 million people transport to offer the
annually! “greenest” routing
Show one’s carbon footprint
and valorize ecological
behavior (e.g. mobility
card/points, ..)
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ITS to improve road safety
Role of ITS
Provide real time
United Nations:
information to users (
1,3 million “road conditions of road,
deaths” a year ! weather, traffic flow, ..)
50 million people Smoothen traffic flow and
injured ! prevent speed variations
Costing society Enforce speeding
100 billion US$ Detect incidents, shorten
annually reaction times for
appropriate rescue
measures
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13. INTERNATIONAL ROAD FEDERATION
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Structure & Activities of ITS Policy Committee
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Activities Phase 1 - Development
• Development & production of:
Phase 1 • ITS Advocacy Document
Development • ITS Strategy Portal
• Development of regional focus:
(2009-2011) Scandinavia, Mexico, India
• Increase of stakeholder cooperation
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Activities 2010 & 2011
• Overview ITS contributions to policy objectives (2010)
• Global survey (2010)
• Urban case study ITS and reducing carbon emissions (2010)
• Case studies on legal framework (2010)
• Generic model ITS strategy (2010)
• Delft/NL: Workshop Mobility in 2030 (2011)
• Regional focus: Scandinavia (2011), Mexico (2011)
• ITS strategy library & portal (ongoing)
• ITS Advocacy Document (ongoing)
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Regional focus 2011
Scandinavia Mexico
• ITS strategy update from • Initiate dialogue and putting
Sweden, Norway, Denmark, ITS on agenda
Finland • All stakeholders involved
• Visit to Stockholm congestion • Manifest (under development)
charging scheme
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Other important events in 2011
• Establishment of working relations with • MoU with EasyWay = Association of
IRF Washington ITS Committee European Road Authorities and
• Establishment ITS India Subcommittee Operators
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19. INTERNATIONAL ROAD FEDERATION
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2012 -2014 Phase 2 = Outreach
• Finalize ITS Policies Advocacy Document:
• IRF Charta on ITS
Phase 2
for Sustainable Mobility
Outreach ITS Policies • Deployment of ITS Advocacy Document
• ITS Knowledge data base on IRF website
• Intensify stakeholder cooperation
(e.g. EasyWay)
• Increase regional focus worldwide
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20. INTERNATIONAL ROAD FEDERATION
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Upcoming IRF ITS PC Meetings in 2012
Date & Location Event Occasion
8-9 March 2012 ITS Policy Committee Meeting, in IBTTA Transportation Summit of
Cape Town, South Africa collaboration with ITS South Africa South Africa, 11-13 March 2012
March 2012 Joint Strategy Workshop EasyWay & Intertraffic, 27-30 March 2012
Amsterdam, Netherlands IRF ITS PC
May 2012 Launch Event ITS advocacy International Transport Forum,
Leipzig, Germany publication 2-4 May 2012
September 2012 Joint Meeting TTS Italia & IRF ITS PC --
Rome, Italy
October 2012 Stakeholders and Information 19th ITS World Congress, 22-26
Vienna, Austria meetings on IRF Policy Committee October 2012
on ITS
Follow Up Meetings India, Mexico, etc.
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22. INTERNATIONAL ROAD FEDERATION
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Thank you very much for your attention!
Questions?
For more information:
www.irfnet.ch
Josef A. Czako, Kapsch TrafficCom
Chairman, Policy Committee on ITS
josef.czako@kapsch.net
Caroline Visser, IRF Geneva
Coordinator ITS Programmes
cvisser@irfnet.org
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Hinweis der Redaktion
Financing road infrastructureUse of RUC for sustainable financing of roads, from providing additional capacity to accommodate growing demand to demand management, development towards pay-per-use model.Optimising traffic flowTraffic monitoring & management to reduce congestion, traffic guidance, incident management, promoting modal shiftProtecting the environmentReducing traffic on sensitives routes & zones, emissions monitoring, influencing car buying behaviourImproving road safety1,2 Mio people killed annually, protecting vulnerable road users, assistance, economic impact, equity impacts
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